How to Use comprehension in a Sentence

comprehension

noun

• The students showed excellent reading comprehension.
• Now is not the time to be valuing speed at the cost of comprehension.
  — Lauren M. Singer Trakhman, The Conversation, 3 June 2022
• In other words, the gap in comprehension wasn’t a gap in skills.
  — Natalie Wexler, The Atlantic, 9 July 2019
• The only thing was maybe her comprehension of plays and teaching her that and the why of things.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2018
• From there, the effort both teams gave to keep the ball off the floor was beyond comprehension.
  — Jacob Myers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2021
• The back and forth in this match is beyond comprehension.
  — cleveland, 3 Apr. 2020
• For all my comprehension the course book may as well be on patent law.
  — Cheryl Jarvis, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The scenes of rage, violence and agony are so vast that the whole of it may still be beyond comprehension.
  — Jay Reeves, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
• The paper points out that there are two schools of thought about how to teach reading comprehension.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Can some kind of real comprehension of the world emerge through that prison house of language?
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• But the way her mom was stolen from her defies comprehension.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• The timing and the reach of the platform — the amount of people who saw it in such a short period of time — that was beyond the scope of my comprehension.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 29 Jan. 2022
• The all-carb, all-the-time diet the elves follow is funny, and beyond the comprehension of the soldiers stationed at the North Pole.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2020
• And then there’s the H.P. Lovecraft take on it, which is ‘aliens are beyond our comprehension.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2020
• There’s a bit of a change from season one to season two in the level of comprehension of the character.
  — Adrienne Gaffney, ELLE, 19 Sep. 2022
• Her hearing might be fine, but her own comprehension seems to be faulty.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2021
• In the case of the cosmos the timescale is well beyond our very short lifetimes or even beyond our comprehension.
  — Shannon Stirone, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2020
• But his recent comments reveal his lack of comprehension about the scope of what the players want to change.
  — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 15 June 2018
• The tests then ask questions designed to assess comprehension: What’s the main idea of the passage?
  — Natalie Wexler, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2018
• The drug is potent almost beyond comprehension — and that’s what changes the game.
  — Fortune, 6 June 2018
• The Eighth stands out for its utter excess of love, the force beyond comprehension.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• For reading comprehension, ask your kid to figure out the who, what, where,, when, why and how for stories.
  — Staff, cleveland.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• For one kid to take them away from their life and parents is beyond our comprehension.
  — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• The gushing is more likely to boost his ego than his comprehension.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• The thought of that phone call — that your child is the victim in a mass shooting — is beyond comprehension as a human being.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
• News like that can defy comprehension for a 10-year-old.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• The idea that Ukraine’s military would seek to kill them is beyond comprehension, said Maj.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
• Fowler found her own way, trying to teach comprehension skills through texts that could infuse more joy into the process than those in the basal reader.
  — Natalie Wexler, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2020
• The kenning’s true meaning lies beyond the edges of my comprehension.
  — Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
• My focus would be on reading comprehension, specifically looking at striving for higher proficiencies by the third grade.
  — Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024